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- | < | + | INTRODUCTION |
- | < | + | v0.18.0 was a major update and inevitably some bugs crept in that we didn' |
- | detect prior to shipping. | + | |
- | happily the regression test suite now has tests for many of them so that | + | |
- | they will never reoccur. | + | they will never reoccur. |
- | below for the gory details) and also has two significant changes: the | + | below for the gory details) and also has two significant changes: the |
- | caching code associated with the History page has been totally rewritten | + | |
- | by me so that the History barely slows down as the number of messages in | + | by me so that the History barely slows down as the number of messages in |
- | the History increases; the Windows installer can now configure Outlook | + | the History increases; the Windows installer can now configure Outlook |
- | and Outlook Express Internet email accounts for you (and undo the changes | + | and Outlook Express Internet email accounts for you (and undo the changes |
- | if you uninstall POPFile).</ | + | if you uninstall POPFile). |
- | < | + | POPFile v0.18.1 is also the first version where the UI meets the Bobby AA |
- | rating for accessibility. | + | |
- | discriminate against particular operating system, or natural languages, | + | |
- | or ways you want to sort your mail, but it is also accessible by everyone | + | or ways you want to sort your mail, but it is also accessible by everyone |
- | regardless of the specific challenges they face. (FOr more details on | + | |
- | this drop by http:// | + | this drop by http:// |
- | < | + | Aside: If you are young, fit, and computer literate you might wonder why I |
- | bothered to make Bobby-level accessibility a requirement. Early on in | + | |
- | POPFile' | + | |
- | him, sorting mail had been an arduous, frustrating task.</ | + | him, sorting mail had been an arduous, frustrating task. |
- | < | + | ESSENTIAL READING IF YOU ARE UPGRADING FROM v0.17.x |
- | < | + | 1. BACK UP YOUR OLD INSTALLATION: |
- | | + | the entire POPFile directory somewhere. |
- | | + | POPFile v0.18.1 on top of your current installation; |
- | | + | is a sensible precaution. |
- | < | + | 2. YOUR HISTORY WILL CLEAR: I have changed the format of the History files |
- | | + | used in this version which means that the old History files will not be |
- | | + | read by POPFile and will in fact be deleted to save disk space. |
- | | + | need to do any reclassifications prior to installing v0.18.1 do them! |
- | | + | POPFile does NOT clear buckets, statistics or anything else on install of |
- | | + | this version, just the History files. |
- | | + | the History tab at any time; POPFile will check disk for new messages. |
- | < | + | 3. IF YOU HAD BROKEN MAGNETS: I have added automatic update of broken magnets. |
- | | + | If you had a magnet like [foo] which POPFile mistakenly changed to \[foo\] |
- | | + | it should get magically fixed and start working. |
- | < | + | 4. ACCURACY MIGHT DROP FOR A SHORT WHILE: because of some changes made in the |
- | | + | mail parser it is possible that you might see accuracy drop initially and |
- | | + | you may find yourself reclassifying a few messages that used to work. This |
- | | + | is unfortunate but necessary to make POPFile even more accurate than before |
- | | + | and v0.18.1 incorporates changes that make POPFile' |
- | | + | accuracy better; however old corpuses might need a little retraining. |
- | < | + | DOWNLOADING |
- | < | + | You can obtain the latest release of POPFile by visiting |
- | < | + | http:// |
- | < | + | UPGRADING |
- | < | + | Just install POPFile on top of the currently installed version. |
- | read the ESSENTIAL READING above first if you are upgrading from a pre v0.18.0 | + | read the ESSENTIAL READING above first if you are upgrading from a pre v0.18.0 |
- | version?</ | + | |
- | < | + | FAQ |
- | < | + | zonk3r has spent a great deal of time on a POPFile FAQ. Please check it out |
- | as it covers many questions that you might have:</ | + | as it covers many questions that you might have: |
- | < | + | http:// |
- | < | + | THE GORY DETAILS |
- | < | + | |
- | and HTTP requests in the middle of downloading mail when the mail message | + | |
- | containing a MIME encoding that used certain characters that were special | + | |
- | in a Perl regular expression. (Reported by ecarlseen, gilesjuk, panther757, | + | |
- | szkaroly and fixed by sschinke) | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 2. The skinning system continues to evole with kraelen, stanley_krute and | + | 2. The skinning system continues to evole with kraelen, stanley_krute and |
- | kinematics working madly to make everything skinnable, make everything | + | |
- | comply with HTML 4.01, CSS1 and Bobby AA guidelines. | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 3. The code that handled the History cache that was meant to speed the loading | + | 3. The code that handled the History cache that was meant to speed the loading |
- | of the History pages and that I originally wrote was pretty lame and | + | |
- | some people (including me!) were ending up with 1000 message in the history | + | |
- | and the load time sucked. | + | |
- | ONLY ONCE per file and caches everything in memory. | + | |
- | received they get loaded once per new message as well. When a History | + | |
- | page needs to be generated everything can be loaded from the cache without | + | |
- | doing any disk access which means that you should see little difference | + | |
- | between 10 messages and 1000.</ | + | |
- | < | + | |
- | contained multiple lines. | + | |
- | < | + | |
- | correctly which typically happened when you downloaded a large number of | + | |
- | emails in one batch. | + | |
- | the pipe between the child POP3 process and the parent regularly, this has | + | |
- | been modified so that this can never happen and statistics update in real | + | |
- | time even as mail is downloading. (Reported by burale, | + | |
- | < | + | |
- | xuesheng to make it reconfigure Outlook and Outlook Express for you and | + | |
- | include a number of new screens. | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 7. Quarantine had a couple of bugs where it would show the incorrect date | + | 7. Quarantine had a couple of bugs where it would show the incorrect date |
- | (reported by thejcab) and the wrong to address (reported by dyoungmciwcom) | + | |
- | under some circumtances. | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 8. When the From or Subject was encoded using base64 or quoted printable | + | 8. When the From or Subject was encoded using base64 or quoted printable |
- | weird things would show up in the History. (Reported by goulduck and fixed | + | |
- | by williamxp) | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 9. spf and I went back and forth discussing line endings in the files saved to | + | 9. spf and I went back and forth discussing line endings in the files saved to |
- | disk so that all the MSG and CLS files could be loaded into an editor on | + | |
- | any platform without extraneous characters. | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 10. People who live on the Bleeding Edge were getting update warnings from | + | 10. People who live on the Bleeding Edge were getting update warnings from |
- | POPFile even though they were on the latest version. | + | |
- | on the update server. | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 11. Magnets containing the & character could not be deleted. (Reported by the | + | 11. Magnets containing the & character could not be deleted. (Reported by the |
- | infamous stanley_krute and fixed by helphand) | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 12. There was a bug associateds with invisible ink detection that could cause | + | 12. There was a bug associateds with invisible ink detection that could cause |
- | POPFile' | + | |
- | spanned a table. (Reported by mfichtner) | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 13. If POPFile didn't exit gracefully then statistics were not being saved to | + | 13. If POPFile didn't exit gracefully then statistics were not being saved to |
- | disk and would not be up to date. (Reported by daemon72) | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 14. The Shutdown page had no CSS because POPFile was shutdown, we now have a | + | 14. The Shutdown page had no CSS because POPFile was shutdown, we now have a |
- | simple SSI solution just for the shutdown page. (Fix and report by | + | |
- | helphand) | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 15. There was a problem with Subject Line Modification where if it was turned | + | 15. There was a problem with Subject Line Modification where if it was turned |
- | off every subject line got an extra space in it. (Reported by and | + | |
- | fixed by helphand) | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 16. There was a bug where you couldn' | + | 16. There was a bug where you couldn' |
- | (Reported by adammc and fixed by helphand) | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 17. Viewing base64 encoded messages in the History resulted in little useful | + | 17. Viewing base64 encoded messages in the History resulted in little useful |
- | output. (Reported by biljir and fixed by pkarlin) | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 18. sschinke whipped up a new -archive option that causes message removed from | + | 18. sschinke whipped up a new -archive option that causes message removed from |
- | the History to get saved away on disk. | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 19. sschinke made POPFile behave better when a POP3 server suddenly stops | + | 19. sschinke made POPFile behave better when a POP3 server suddenly stops |
- | responding in the middle of a conversation. | + | |
- | </ | + | |
- | < | + | DONATIONS |
- | < | + | Thank you to everyone who has clicked the Donate! button and donated their |
- | hard earned cash to me in support of POPFile. | + | hard earned cash to me in support of POPFile. |
- | who have contributed patches, feature requests and bug reports and big thanks | + | who have contributed patches, feature requests and bug reports and big thanks |
- | to the two POPFile team members Stan and Sam for their continued efforts.</ | + | to the two POPFile team members Stan and Sam for their continued efforts. |
- | < | + | Keep the ideas and bug reports coming. |
- | < | + | John. |
+ | </ |
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